Hi. I spent all last night and a fair bit of today trying to get a window manager working - any window manager. But, no luck. If someone can help, I'd appreciate it. (cygwin, Win XP SP3)
(1) I tried "gnome-session" from a bash shell (a) without starting X before-hand, (b) with X started using /bin/startxwin.bat (edited to remove -multiwindow from the Xwin command) and with/without DISPLAY set (to 127.0.0.1:0.0); and (c) using startx and .xinitrc with the line: exec gnome-session. In all cases, it fails silently. In case (c) X starts and then shuts down. (2) I tried startkde (a) with X started using /bin/startxwin.bat (edited to remove -multiwindow from the Xwin command) and with DISPLAY set (to 127.0.0.1:0.0), and (b) using startx and .xinitrc with the line: exec startkde. In case (a) I get: -------- startkde: Starting up... -------- Then it gives me the startup screen in the X window. then, I get: ------- Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-<uname>/fam- kbuildsycoca running... ------- and then the startup screen disappears and it freezes. I have to ^C out and kill a million kdeinit processes by hand. In case (b) I get "xauth: creating new authority file /home/<uname>/serverauth.3700" and then it freezes. I have to ^C out. I tried the same thing again later, without DISPLAY set (and possibly other differences that I can't identify rated to trying these various managers), and I got a different result, very much what I found in (3) (below): ----------- xauth: creating new authority file /home/Dev/.serverauth.3812 Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.5.3.0 (20090222) Contact: [email protected] XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /home/Dev/.serverauth.3812 winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winPrefsLoadPreferences: /home/Dev/.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0). MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 (--) 3 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "7" Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 509 371 winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winProcEstablishConnection - Clipboard is not enabled, returning. ------------ After I ^C out, I get: ------------- waiting for X server to shut down (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winPrefsLoadPreferences: /home/Dev/.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0). MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 .........(--) 3 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "7" Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" . xinit: X server slow to shut down, sending KILL signal. waiting for server to die xinit: unexpected signal 2. --------------- (3) I tried startxfce4. I see that it starts X own it's own. I get: ---------- /usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.5.3.0 (20090222) Contact: [email protected] XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winPrefsLoadPreferences: /home/Dev/.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0). MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 (--) 3 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "7" Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 509 371 winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winProcEstablishConnection - Clipboard is not enabled, returning. ---------- Then, it freezes. I have to ^C out (and then kill some processes by hand): ------ waiting for X server to shut down winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress xinit: unexpected signal 2. ------- (4) I tried startlxde (a) on it's own and (b) with X started using /bin/startxwin.bat (edited to remove -multiwindow from the Xwin command) and with DISPLAY set (to 127.0.0.1:0.0) In case (a) it starts an xsession.exe (but no window comes up) and then freezes. In case (b) it also starts xde-settings.exe and xscreensaver.exe. After a long wait, I get some screensavers coming up, which disappear when I focus on the root window, but nothing else happens. Otherwise, it appears frozen. (5) I tried. It works. Yay. (Sort of.) (6) I tried starte16. That works, with X started using /bin/startxwin.bat, (edited to remove -multiwindow from the Xwin command) and I believe I set DISPLAY to (to 127.0.0.1:0.0). Unfortunately, a number of gnome and kde programs that e16 imports do not seem to run. I didn't make an exhaustive search, but I tried a few and only a couple worked. Because of (6) I went back and tried gnome-session and startkde with export WINDOW_MANAGE=e16 in the .xinitrc file (and then running startx). These also failed. I am now exhausted. If anyone can help, I would _so_ much appreciate it. Thanks, DA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
